§ 1 Information about the Collection of Personal Data
(1) In the following, we inform you about the processing of personal data when using our website. Personal data includes all data that can be related to you personally, such as name, address, email addresses, and user behavior. We aim to inform you about our processing activities and, at the same time, comply with legal obligations, particularly those arising from the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
(2) Controller pursuant to Art. 4(7) GDPR is Mrs. Daniela Kracher, Hofweg 62 in 22085 Hamburg (see our imprint).
(3) When you contact us by email or through a contact form, the data you provide (your email address, possibly your name and phone number) will be stored by us to answer your inquiries. We delete the data collected in this context if the request is assigned to a contract, after the contract expires, or if storage is no longer necessary, or restrict processing if legal retention obligations exist.
(4) If we use commissioned service providers for specific functions of our offering or want to use your data for advertising purposes, we will carefully select and monitor these service providers and provide detailed information about the processes below, including the defined criteria for storage duration.
§ 2 Your Rights
(1) You have the following rights with respect to your personal data:
• Right to information,
• Right to rectification or erasure,
• Right to restriction of processing,
• Right to object to processing,
• Right to data portability.
(2) Additionally, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority regarding the processing of your personal data by us.
§ 3 Processing of Personal Data when Visiting our Website
During the informative use of the website, without registration and without providing other information, we process the personal data that your browser sends to our server. The following data, necessary for us for technical reasons to display our website and ensure stability and security, must be processed by us. The legal basis is Art. 6(1) sentence 1 lit. f GDPR:
• IP address
• Date and time of the request
• Time zone difference to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
• Content of the request (visited page)
• Access status/HTTP status code
• Data volume transmitted
• Previously visited page
• Browser
• Operating system
• Language and version of the browser software.
§ 4 Additional Features and Offers on our Website
(1) In addition to the purely informative use of our website, we offer various services that you can use if interested. We use additional common functions for the analysis or marketing of our offers, which are presented in more detail below. For all data processing purposes described here, the principles of data processing mentioned above apply.
(2) We may use external service providers to process your data. These are carefully selected by us, bound by our instructions, and regularly monitored.
(3) Furthermore, we may disclose your personal data to third parties if promotions, contests, contract conclusions, or similar services are offered jointly with partners. Depending on the service, your data may also be collected independently by the partners. More information can be obtained when providing your data or below in the description of the respective offers.
(4) If our service providers or partners are located in a country outside the European Economic Area (EEA), we will inform you about the consequences of this circumstance in the description of the offer.
§ 5 Payment Processing via PayPal and Braintree SDK
(1) For payment processing on our website, we use the payment services of PayPal and the Braintree SDK from Braintree, a subsidiary of PayPal (Europe) S.à r.l. et Cie, S.C.A. The personal data processed during the payment process includes contact details and transaction details.
(2) Please note that PayPal has its own privacy policies for which we cannot assume responsibility. Information on PayPal's privacy practices can be found in PayPal's privacy policy on their website.
(3) The processing of your data in connection with payment processing is based on Art. 6(1) lit. b GDPR (contract performance) and Art. 6(1) lit. f GDPR (legitimate interest in effective payment processes).
(4) Note that PayPal and Braintree may transfer personal data to countries outside the European Economic Area (EEA). Further information on the consequences of this transfer can be found in the privacy policies of PayPal.
§ 6 Objection or Revocation against the Processing of Your Data
(1) If you have given your consent to the processing of your data, you can revoke it at any time. Such a revocation affects the permissibility of processing your personal data after you have given it to us. The permissibility of processing your data until the time of your revocation remains unaffected.
(2) If we base the processing of your personal data on the balancing of interests, you may object to the processing. This is the case if the processing is not necessary for the performance of a contract with you, as demonstrated in each case in the following description of the functions. If you exercise such an objection, we will examine the situation and either stop or adjust the data processing, or show you our compelling legitimate grounds for continuing the processing.
(3) Of course, you can object to the processing of your personal data for purposes of advertising and data analysis at any time. Your objection to advertising can be exercised best using the contact details provided above.
§ 7 Processing of Data from Your End Devices ("Cookie Policy")
(1) When using our website, no own cookies are set. We do not use technologies such as cookies, flash cookies, or similar mechanisms for data storage on your end device.
(2) We do not use transient or persistent cookies, nor do we use other technologies for data storage. This means that there is no automated deletion of cookies when you close your browser or log out since no such cookies exist.
(3) Technically necessary functions: The technical structure of the website may require our server to set transient cookies automatically. Without these techniques, our website cannot be displayed (completely correctly), or support functions may not be enabled. These are fundamentally transient cookies that are deleted after the end of your website visit, at the latest when you close your browser. These cookies cannot be deselected if you want to use our website. The individual cookies are visible in the consent manager. The legal basis for this processing is Art. 6(1) sentence 1 lit. f GDPR.
(4) Since we do not set our own cookies, we do not need consent for cookie use. There are no cookie selection options via a consent manager.
(5) Our privacy practices comply with applicable data protection laws, and we respect your privacy when using our website.
§ 8 SSL Encryption
Visiting our website and transmitting personal data or personal content of our users is carried out via SSL encryption. Please ensure that SSL encryption is enabled. The use of encryption is easy to recognize: the display in your browser line changes from "http://" to "https://" when SSL encryption is activated. Data encrypted via SSL is not readable by third parties. Therefore, only transmit your confidential information with activated SSL encryption and contact us if in doubt.
B. Hosting via Ionos
We host our website with 1&1 IONOS SE. 1&1 IONOS SE offers web hosting, among other services, and is based in Germany at Elgendorfer Str. 57, 56410 Montabaur and in Austria at Gumpendorfer Straße 142/PF 266, 1060 Vienna. We have concluded a data processing agreement with 1&1 IONOS SE. Learn more about data protection at 1&1 IONOS SE here: (https://www.ionos.de/termsgtc/datenschutzerklaerung/?tid=331672396071).
C. Special Usage Forms
1. Registration via the Website
(1) To actively use our application, you must register by providing your email address and a self-selected password. It is possible to choose a username, and there is no obligation to use your real name; pseudonymous usage is possible. For registration, we send a link to the provided email address. By clicking on the link or copying it into the browser window, the registration is completed. Your provided data and the times of your registration for the service are stored by us until you cancel your user account.
(2) When you register an account, we store, until you cancel it, in addition to your registration data, all information you enter in the user area, such as public posts, votes, questions asked, photos, etc., to operate the application. The legal basis is Art. 6(1) sentence 1 lit. b GDPR. In the current version of the application, public posts remain available indefinitely. We reserve the right to change this in the future when the application versions change.
(3) If you delete your account, your votes remain anonymous and visible to all users, but your account is no longer accessible. All other data is deleted.
2. E-Mail Contact
(1) Contact can be made via the provided email address. In this case, the personal data of the user transmitted with the email will be stored.
(2) The legal basis for processing the data is Art. 6(1) lit. a GDPR if the user has given consent. The legal basis for processing the data transmitted in the course of sending an email is Art. 6(1) lit. f GDPR. If the email contact aims at the conclusion of a contract, an additional legal basis for the processing is Art. 6(1) lit. b GDPR.
(3) The data will be deleted as soon as it is no longer necessary for the purpose of its collection. For the personal data sent by email, this is the case when the respective conversation with the user has ended. The conversation is deemed ended when it can be inferred from the circumstances that the relevant matter has been conclusively clarified. The personal data additionally collected during the sending process will be deleted at the latest after a period of seven days. The user has the possibility to revoke their consent to the processing of personal data at any time. If the user contacts us by email, they can object to the storage of their personal data at any time. In such a case, the conversation cannot be continued.
D. Notifications of Important Service Information and Marketing Communication
(1) We reserve the right to send you important information about our service, such as changes to the terms of use, security updates, or other essential notifications, without your prior consent via email. These emails are not to be understood as newsletters, and you cannot object to receiving these important notifications. We ensure that these communications are transparent and relevant.
(2) For any promotional communications not directly related to the service or essential information, we will obtain your explicit consent before sending you such communications.
E. IONOS Web Analytics
(1) This website uses IONOS WebAnalytics, a web tracking service provided by IONOS SE at Elgendorfer Str. 57, 56410 Montabaur. The purpose of our use of the tool is to enable the analysis of your user interactions on websites and in apps and to improve and make our offer more interesting for you as a user based on the statistics and reports obtained.
(2) Tracking and logging are activated by default. Data is collected either by a pixel or through a log file. To protect personal data, WebAnalytics does not use cookies. The visitor's IP address is transmitted when a page is requested, directly anonymized after transmission, and processed without personal reference.
(3) IONOS does not store personal data of website visitors, so individual visitors cannot be identified. The following data is collected:
• Referrer (previously visited website)
• Requested website or file
• Browser type and browser version
• Operating system used
• Type of device used
• Time of access
• IP address in anonymized form (only used to determine the location of access)
(4) In WebAnalytics, data is collected solely for statistical evaluation and technical optimization of the website. No data is passed on to third parties. More information about data protection at IONOS WebAnalytics can be found here: [Link to Ionos WebAnalytics Privacy Policy](https://www.ionos.de/hilfe/datenschutz/datenverarbeitung-von-webseitenbesuchern-ihres-11-ionos-produktes/webanalytics/).
F. Applicant Data
All data provided to us via our website or through another means for the purpose of the application and selection process will be processed solely for the purpose of conducting the application and selection process and will serve solely to evaluate professional suitability and contact you. This includes your salutation, first name, last name, address, telephone number, email address, your CV, as well as data about your education and qualifications, Art. 6(1) b) GDPR, 26 BDSG. If you disclose "special categories of personal data" according to Art. 9 GDPR in your application letter or other documents submitted by you in the application process, your consent also applies to this data. We ask you to refrain from providing information on special categories of personal data in the application whenever possible.
Your application documents will only be forwarded to those responsible for evaluating the application and, if necessary, hiring. Your applicant data will be used exclusively for the application process with us. The data and files you submit will only be stored and used for purposes related to the collection and processing of your application. By submitting your application, you also give your consent to the storage of your applicant data. Six months after the conclusion of the application process, your applicant data will be deleted. No separate notification will be given for this. The principles outlined also apply to speculative applications, i.e., when you are not applying for a specific position or when sending the application data by post or email.
Note: This English translation is provided for informational purposes only. In case of any discrepancies, the German version of the Privacy Policy prevails.